London

Dry Gin

Welcome to the home of Beckett’s Gin, an exquisite spirit with a wonderful taste and a delightfully smooth finish.

It is a small batch London dry gin distilled and bottled in London using the finest ingredients, most notably juniper berries from England and mint from Kingston-upon-Thames.

The result is a warm, aromatic and bittersweet character with our signature cool finish.

Botanicals

‘Less is more’

Robert Browning

The key to our gin’s pre-eminence is our unique recipe no. 1097. We use just six complementary botanicals which are in perfect harmony.

First of course, is the juniper. We are unique in using English juniper berries handpicked from Box Hill in Surrey with kind permission of the National Trust and Natural England.

For the citrus notes we use Moroccan lime and coriander. We also add Spanish sweet orange peel and Italian orris root to smooth these notes to perfection. It is the spirit equivalent of analogue sound; mellow and harmonious.

Finally, the masterstroke, we infuse our gin with mint grown here in Kingston-upon-Thames. This quintessential English herb works wonderfully with our other botanicals to create a warm, aromatic and bittersweet character and helps to produce our signature smooth, cool finish.

Our Home

It is apt, given that gin has become the classic English spirit, for us to be located where England began. It was here in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames where King Athelstan, the first king of England, was crowned in 925AD. He united the Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia and conquered the Viking kingdoms of Northumbria and York to form the Kingdom of England.

Conservation

Juniper is in steep decline in England and is therefore a priority species for conservation. To help save juniper from local extinction we are undertaking a long-term project, in conjunction with the National Trust and the Forestry Commission, to create a new sustainable population of juniper on Juniper Top in Surrey.